what settings would you use to recreate this style

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hello, i had an idea for some photography as part of a course i am doing and researching the idea i came across this site,

http://little-people.blogspot.com/

and i wondered what settings and lens you think i would use to create a similar style although not to copy the photography direct.

thanks for any advice?
 
they dont look like anything special tbh, just photographs..is there a particular photo you have seen, its a bit hard to give any advice with no frame of reference..:)
 
any lens over say 50mm and imagination is all you will need for this i guess.
 
would you say a macro lens is needed for the close ups or just a standard lens?

well the photos all appeal to me and have purchased the book and now collected figures and got my ideas ready, just wondered about lens and possible camera settings.

one issue i had was the close ups, if i was to zoom into the figure then the area around would be limited but the examples on the website show a closeup of the figure and a lot of detail and more surrounding areas? any suggestions?

thanks
 
All the photos are, is small subjects with lots of DOF.
So maybe yes, a Macro lens would give you this nice effect easier then a normal lens but its certainly not a must I wouldnt have thought so
 
If you want the little figure in sharp focus and the background blurred, then you need to use a large aperture somewhere like f/2-f/4, if you want the figure and a lot of the background in sharp focus then use a smaller aperture like f/16-f/22.
 
i think i need to create a setting and them try some test shots to get my head around the ideas?

thanks for the input, any more suggestions are much appreciated, thanks
 
have loked at this a little more today and dont feel that using the macro lens give me anything special in fact it offers very little and probable get in to close to achieve the look.

thanks
 
Look up tilt shift fake on google.

Macro lens or some kind of prime with a close up lens (think 50mm + a Raynox 250 or so maybe).

Find some little little toys and find interesting environments. Shouldn't be too complicated.
 
^^

I was going to sugges the same thing. Not sure how well it would work but those photos certainly look like other Tilt Shift photos i've seen.
 
EXIF data says 105mm lens on a 5D Mark II

Quite an extreme depth of field even at f10, so it's probably a 70-200 2.8L
 
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